Schlesinger Library Newsletter Fall 2014

Harvard University President Drew Gilpin Faust was the perfect person to provide historical context for the Schlesinger Library’s new exhibition, titled What They Wrote, What They Saved: The Personal Civil War.

The papers of Charlotte Hawkins Brown (1883–1961), an educator who transformed a one-room schoolhouse into an accredited junior college, are now available to a wider audience because of work done by a Pforzheimer Fellow.

Beverly Wilson Palmer transcribed one of the library’s Civil War diaries for the exhibition What They Wrote, What They Saved: The Personal Civil War. The diary’s author was unknown, and as she worked, Palmer became increasingly curious about the diarist and began trying to learn who she was.

Tyrell Haberkorn RI '15 turns most often to the works of poet Adrienne Rich—not the canonical (mostly male) writers in the field of Southeast Asian studies—to inform how she thinks about Thai political history.

The noted author Jill Lepore BI ’00, the David Woods Kemper ’41 Professor of American History at Harvard and a staff writer at the New Yorker, gave a spirited lecture on Wonder Woman in late October at the Radcliffe Institute.